💙 Road of Life 💛
23 October 2024Hi friends
Thanks for your continued support for Kiwi K.A.R.E in Ukraine. We greatly appreciate your generosity and care.
Our work continues at pace particularly with winter rapidly approaching.
We have formalised our evacuation and medical transportation service in a new brand called Road-of-Life.
The Road-of-Life brand has taken a lot of conversations and input with our Ukrainian partners and I truly believe it shows a strong partnership between New Zealand and Ukraine on multiple levels, albeit in a small way.
We currently have three teams who will run the ambulances in the wider Kharkiv Region (Team East), the Kherson Region (Team South), and across Western Ukraine to assist Internally Displaced Persons who need to get to a hospital.
In time, and contingent on funding, we will grow this capability and the geographical service area in which we operate.
Let me know your thoughts.
Best regards, Tenby
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This seems to be consistent with your extraordinary efforts to locate and deliver ambulances over the last year or so, so yes, link up with other organisations with the same purpose. However, please keep going with the water heater project if you can, as this may help people to stay in their embattled homes, and prevent de-population of those areas.
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Thanks Gillian. You have my assurance that we will continue to fabricate stoves and water heaters; we recognise how critical they are given the constant targeting of power and water infrastructure.
In fact - very soon, we will have fabricated our 3000th unit. I’ll post on that soon. Suffice to say, we are very grateful for all the tremendous support which has enabled this outcome. The collection of old electrical water cylinders continues at pace, as does their repurposing (disassembly and re-fabrication), and distribution to families in red zones.
Evacuation and hospital transportation has always been a core activity for Kiwi K.A.R.E. The Road-of-Life brand formalizes our partnership with Ukrainian registered Day-by-Day Foundation in respect of this.
We greatly appreciate your continued interest and concern for Ukrainian civilians living under siege. 💙💛